Though throned in highest bliss
Equal to God, and equally enjoying
God-like fruition.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 305)
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I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be
described.
[Fr., Je l'ai toujours dit et senti, la veritable jouissance ne
se decrit point.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Quotes , Source: Confessions (VIII)
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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.
Matt Biondi
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Who can enjoy alone?
Or all enjoying what contentment find?
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 365)
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For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full
Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond
Higher design than to enjoy his state.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Regained (bk. II, l. 201)
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It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying
yourself when you aren't.
Edith Nesbit
Quotes , Source: Five of Use, and Madeline
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Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest,
Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 79)
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Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be
interrupted.
Jean Paul Richter
Quotes , Source: Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces (ch. VIII)
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You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things
which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased by
them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other
account than mere delight.
John Ruskin
Quotes , Source: Stones of Venice (vol. I, ch. II)
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How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ;
And how with the longest day enjoy!
[Lat., Quam vellem longas tecum requiescere noctes,
Et tecum longos pervigilare dies.]
Albius Tibullus
Quotes , Source: Carmina (III, 6, 53)
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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Denis Waitley
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Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.
Lyman Bryson
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
James M. Barrie
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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Malcolm S. Forbes
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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Novalis
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If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.
Glen Buck
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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.
John Sculley
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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
Humboldt
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